NOVANEWS
Afghan President Karzai Threatens to Join Taliban
You Just Can’t Get Good Puppets Any More.
by Ian Mosley
It looks like one of America’s most notorious foreign puppets is trying to cut his strings or at least loosen them a little. A recent news article reports: “Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened over the weekend to quit the political process and join the Taliban if he continued to come under outside pressure to reform, several members of parliament said Monday.
Karzai made the unusual statement at a closed-door meeting Saturday with selected lawmakers—just days after kicking up a diplomatic controversy with remarks alleging foreigners were behind fraud in last year’s disputed elections. Lawmakers dismissed the latest comment as hyperbole, but it will add to the impression the president—who relies on tens of thousands of U.S. and NATO forces to fight the insurgency and prop up his government—is growing increasingly erratic and unable to exert authority without attacking his foreign backers.”
Being part of a puppet government for a foreign occupying power usually attracts riff raff opportunists, not quality statesmen. The Afghans have a culture that is completely alien to Americans. Many things that Nancy Pelosi or Barack Obama might think are “reforms”, would be seen as “abominations” by the numerous Afghan religious fanatics.
The article notes “He [Karzai] said that ‘if I come under foreign pressure, I might join the Taliban’, said Farooq Marenai, who represents the eastern province of Nangarhar. Marenai said Karzai appeared nervous and repeatedly demanded to know why parliament last week had rejected legal reforms that would have strengthened the president’s authority over the country’s electoral institutions.”
Perhaps, Karzai can’t stuff the ballot boxes with the UN controlling the electoral process. Perhaps the Democrats could give Karzai some tips on vote-stealing or the neocons would send over a few Diebold machines. I guess there’s no ACORN in Afghanistan.
The article continues “Two other lawmakers said Karzai twice raised the threat to join the insurgency. The lawmakers, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of political repercussions, said Karzai also dismissed concerns over possible damage his comments had caused to relations with the United States.
He told them he had already explained himself in a telephone conversation Saturday with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that came after the White House described his comments last week as troubling. The lawmakers said they felt Karzai was pandering to hard-line or pro-Taliban members of parliament and had no real intention of joining the insurgency.
Nor does the Afghan leader appear concerned that the U.S. might abandon him, having said numerous times that the U.S. would not leave Afghanistan because it perceives a presence here to be in its national interest.” That sounds like an oblique reference to the $15 billion dollar trans-Afghan natural gas pipeline, which the Afghans were going to give to Bridas Oil of Argentina, but which has been on hold since the war.
The Afghan War has nothing to do with the mythical Bogeyman Osama bin Laden, who appears to be destined to die of old age. The US military industrial complex WANTS an evil bogeyman out there who miraculously evades us so the “war on terror” can go on forever.
The Zionists want US troops to surround Iran on two sides (Afghanistan to the east and Iraq to the west). Nobody is leaving Afghanistan or Iraq until the Jews get their war on Iran. If Karzai raises too much of a fuss, he’ll be tossed aside (or conveniently blown up) and replaced with a new puppet.
Perhaps Obama and Hillary will get the message and quit trying to interfere with Karzai’s ballot box stuffing. He’s proven completely spineless when it comes to standing up to the American occupiers in any meaningful way, and finding another puppet ruler would be simply too much trouble. Obama is too busy right now gearing up to legalize all the illegal aliens here at home in order to stuff his own ballot boxes and ensure perpetual power for the Democrats to worry too much about Afghanistan one way or the other, and Hillary doesn’t have any real influence. Rahm Emanuel just gave her Secretary of state to keep her off the vice presidential ticket back at the Democratic Convention in 2008.
